Friday Morning Open Thread

Happy TGIF all! This week has been intense in terms of my workload. I’ve had no time to exercise and feel bone-weary tired. Here’s to the weekend!

Yesterday I got around to checking e-mail at my mothertalkers acount and came across this interesting story in the New York Times about elite volunteers at school. This is a topic that DH and I often talk about when we dole out money for extracurricular activities and wonder how low-income families are able to participate. Answer: they don’t.

I was also saddened by this story coming out of Utah, in which 40 elementary school students’ lunches were thrown away for unpaid debts. It seemed outrageously wasteful and cruel. I thought of the growing income disparity in our country and…shuddered.

Have you witnessed these kinds of incidents at your children’s schools? How do your schools accommodate the lowest income families?